"The East was no longer a threat to the western world, and when there's nothing to fear we turn our backs, we look elsewhere. Eastern literature is still the poor relative that everyone wants to forget, the Cinderella who hasn't (yet) found her prince."

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“The great mind knows the power of gentleness.”

Source : Robert Browning, Charlotte Endymion Porter, Helen Archibald Clarke (1898). “Prince Hohenstiel-Schwangau”
“But more than anything else, we have learned that legal assistance for the poor, when properly provided, is one of the most constructive ways to help them help themselves.”
“We all to some extent meet again and again the same people and certainly in some cases form a kind of family of two or three or more persons who come together life after life until all passionate relations are exhausted, the child of one life the husband, wife, brother, sister of the next. Sometimes, however, a single relationship will repeat itself, turning its revolving wheel again and again.”
“The only disability in life is a bad attitude.”
“The future exists only in our imagination it is a collective story waiting for our voices to express that can only happen when you and I are willing to enter the emptiness listening in the silence until we can begin to create a future we can befriend.”
“And I should mention the light which falls through the big windows this time of day italicizing everything it touches...”

Source : Billy Collins (2013). “Aimless Love: New and Selected Poems”, p.107, Random House
“Road racing imitates life, the way it would be without the corruptive influence of civilization. When you see an enemy lying on the ground, whatâ€™s your first reaction? To help him to his feet. In road racing, you kick him to death”

Source : Tim Krabbé, Tim Krabbe, Sam Garrett (2003). “The Rider”, p.69, Bloomsbury Publishing USA
“If government knew how, I should like to see it check, not multiply, the population. When it reaches its true law of action, every man that is born will be hailed as essential.”

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